Database Engineer

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Platform Database Engineer at Valtech responsible for managing MongoDB within a cloud ecosystem. Focused on performance, scalability, and automation in database environments.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non‑Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
  • Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi‑region failover.
  • Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams throughout all SDLC phases.
  • Develop and manage infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (Terraform, GitOps) for database provisioning and automation.
  • Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry.
  • Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
  • Collaborate closely with application, DevOps, and platform teams to continuously improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Lead incident response for database‑related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.
  • Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years administering MongoDB Atlas.
  • Strong experience with the AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda).
  • Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes).
  • Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms.
  • Strong Linux administration expertise and scripting skills (Python, Bash).
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Ability to participate in on‑call rotation and incident response.
  • Travel requirement: <10%.